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Cloud computing: 14 million jobs by 2015?

Cloud computing is about efficiency. Cloud computing is about replacing thousands of underutilized server rooms and IT departments with shared facilities with higher utilization rates.

By it's very nature and promise to increase efficiency and lower costs, Cloud computing will eliminate more jobs than it creates. It may very well create 14 Million jobs, I'm not knowledgable enough to dispute that, however I'd argue it probably takes away several times more than that.

A business moving their apps to the cloud should plan on what to do when they are attacked, not if they are attacked.

The costs of cloud services I have been quoted are at best slightly better than break even with an in house app. If there are savings, the numbers do not add up to any appreciable ROI that is worth the security and business continuity risk.

Thank you, but no. I will keep my apps in house.

On a final note. I predict within the next 5 years there will be a hack/DDS attack on a provider that will put an end to the all mighty CLOUD as many people now envision it.

Next bubble to burst is the cloud. I don't think it will take 5 years for it to happen.

In addition to the things you pointed out, people seem to forget about the internet pipe that all this data needs to go through to use the cloud. Try having even 20 people accessing data and apps over a T-1 connection...

Hackers have to be excited, instead of penetrating hundreds of individual data centers, let's hack one and go shopping up and down the isles.